ANAHEIM, Calif., May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Cogitai, a new company aimed at developing and commercializing core artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, today announced a strategic investment from Sony Corporation.Cogitai is focused on addressing one of the biggest problems confronting AI: namely, that no existing AI system has an understanding of the world comparable to a human’s. Even small children in the first few years of life develop an understanding of the world far richer and more sophisticated than the most elaborate AI systems on earth.To address this problem, Cogitai is committed to developing systems that learn continually from their experience.”Our continual-learning technology will allow computer systems to build knowledge and skills simply through interacting with the world around them,” said Dr. Mark Ring, CEO of Cogitai. “Simple knowledge and skills…